Description
When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin. With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, "The Metamorphosis." It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing -- though absurdly comic -- meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, "The Metamorphosis" has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."
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Author: Kafka Franz
Publication date: September 30, 1989
Manufacturer: Folio, spol.s r.o.
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books, Czech fiction in english, Czech authors in english, Psychological novels in english, Fiction in english, English novels
Type: Books - paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN/EAN: 9780553213690